Somehow Tom's Hardware got their hands on a Intel i7-4960X Ivy Bridge-E processor. While from their opening statement it would seem as though Intel did not supply it to them but who knows. Here is what they put as a disclaimer at the top of their article.
[i]Disclaimer: The following preview is based on an early engineering sample Core i7-4960X. Intel was not involved in the story, and was not asked for... Read more here